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VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (KEYT) – A Falcon 9 launch of 25 Starlink satellites destined for low-Earth orbit is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg SFB between midnight and 4 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026.

A live webcast of the launch will start about five minutes before liftoff and you can tune in to watch here or on SpaceX's X/Twitter account.

Following first-stage separation, the booster assigned to this mission will return to Earth to land on the Of Course I Still Love You drone ship stationed in the Pacific Ocean.

A depiction of that launch sequence is shown in the image below.

There is the potential for one or more sonic booms associated with the launch to be heard across the local region, but how far the sound travels will depend on weather and other conditions at the time.

This will be the 31st mission for the Falcon 9 on this mission which previously launched: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, Transporter-7, Iridium OneWeb, SDA-0B, NROL-113, NROL-167, NROL-149, NAOS, and 20 prior Starlink launches.

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VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (KEYT) – A Falcon 9 launch of 25 Starlink satellites destined for low-Earth orbit is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg SFB between midnight and 4 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026.

A live webcast of the launch will start about five minutes before liftoff and you can tune in to watch here or on SpaceX's X/Twitter account.

Following first-stage separation, the booster assigned to this mission will return to Earth to land on the Of Course I Still Love You drone ship stationed in the Pacific Ocean.

A depiction of that launch sequence is shown in the image below.

There is the potential for one or more sonic booms associated with the launch to be heard across the local region, but how far the sound travels will depend on weather and other conditions at the time.

This will be the 31st mission for the Falcon 9 on this mission which previously launched: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, Transporter-7, Iridium OneWeb, SDA-0B, NROL-113, NROL-167, NROL-149, NAOS, and 20 prior Starlink launches.

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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN

(CNN) — CIA Director John Ratcliffe has ordered the retraction or “substantive revision” of 19 of the agency’s intelligence products after a review determined they failed to meet standards for analytic tradecraft and political independence, the Central Intelligence Agency said on Friday.

The spy agency released unredacted versions of three of the retracted or revised intelligence reports. The reports covered topics related to LGBT activists in the Middle East, women and White violent extremism, and contraception during the COVID-19 pandemic. One report was issued under the Biden administration, one under the first Trump administration and one under the Obama administration.

Friday’s declassification is the latest move by Ratcliffe to use the agency’s authority to try to the turn the page on what he sees as the CIA’s past errors.

A declassified CIA memo released last July criticized the analytic work that spy agencies did in concluding that Russia influenced the 2016 presidential election because it wanted Donald Trump to win. Even so, the memo didn’t directly contradict any previous US intelligence.

The intelligence products released on Friday “fall short of the high standards of impartiality that CIA must uphold and do not reflect the expertise for which our analysts are renowned,” Ratcliffe said in a statement.

Trump’s Intelligence Advisory Board identified the intelligence products in the course of a review of hundreds of CIA analytic products over the last decade, according to the CIA. An internal review led by CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis concurred that they did not meet agency standards.

Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, the Republican chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, welcomed the CIA’s retractions and revisions.

“I’ve been sending these kind of reports back to the CIA for years and observing that they contain no intelligence,” Cotton said in a post on X on Friday.

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